Guided By Voices

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag
We are with you in your anger
Proud brothers
Do not fret
The bus will get you there yet
To carry us to the lake
The club is open
Yeah, The club is open
Hey, the club is open
A-come on, come on, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, the club is open...

(R. Pollard)

I am breathing, yet I feel no sky
Things without wings have begun to fly
Unhitched trailers---I see trailers trail
From the well i pull an empty pail
Little man bleeding, little heart beating so
Evil speaker blow my circuits---oh no
Brothers, sisters---all transistors, you know
Father logic sometimes gets cosmic, you know

Watch me jumpstart as the old skin is peeled
See an opening and bust into the field
Hidden longings no longer concealed

Watch me bulldoze every bulldozer away
Each new obstacle from each old new day
Where it's going it's hard for me to say

And shoot me down
And bring me down
But I won't be around
As you run from the places you love
I remember the faces that cry
And they're pulling me back so I have to die

And watch me jumpstart at the first light of day
Each new sensation just blows me away
Don't look now, don't look now, I'm a phase

Straight from ground zero, X marks the spot
I can't pretend to be something I'm not
'Cause I'm supernova, erect and white hot

And shoot me down
And bring me down
But I won't be around
As you run from the places you love
I remember the faces that cry
And they're holding me back so I have to die

And watch me jumpstart I'm Maximum Jack
Shot through the cosmos like an alien attack
Film finished, fade into black

I've waited too long to have you
Hide in the back of me
I've cheated so long I wonder
How you keep track of me

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

I've entered the game of pricks
With knives in the back of me
Can't call you or on you no more
When they're attacking me

I'll climb up on the house
Weep to water the trees
And when you come calling me down
I'll put on my disease

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

(R. Pollard)

I resign myself to the resource
That is unless I can't go out
Should I concede?
Sell yourself to the man
Feel my good hand
And she flees pell-mell
So sick to have been

(Sprout)

Many years we spent unpressured
That we knew so swell
Love in times of simple pleasures
Only time would tell
Oh, this is not to say
We are not the way we used to be
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

We were not so fond of reason
Everyone could tell
Even times we'd start to stumble
But never ever fell
Oh, this is not to say
We were not the worst we've ever been
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Fools and kings decide
Ways to live your life
This is just the way we want to be

(GbV)

Shoot up on the fast lane
She falls like a concrete robot
She's a boy
Billy-I
Billy-L
Billy-L
Billy-Y
Billy-I Billy-L Billy-L Billy-Y

(R. Pollard)

Sometimes I get the feeling
That you don't want me around
But just when you are waking
Just as the snakes are flaking
Sometimes I get the feeling
That you don't want me around
Sometimes I get the feeling
That you don't want me around

(R. Pollard-J. Pollard-Demos)

Introducing the amazing rockethead
You know what the deal is dude
Excuse me Napoleon
But I gotta know
Why I gotta stand
In a hallway
In a highway
Where nothing goes my way
Well I'm going out
Well I'm going in
To the Big Chief's place
Gonna slap his factory down

(R. Pollard)

Chain smoke rings like a vapor snake kiss
She says she don't know why
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Closer you are the quicker it hits you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .

You play the heavy
It's a real slick movie move
"Stoned at the Alamo" tonight
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Try to be nice and look what it gets you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .

I get up at seven o'clock
And drive myself up to the Lookout Rock
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
Now you can see the boys dreaming, scheming. . .
The closer you are the quicker it hits you
The closer you are the quicker it hits you...

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

Post-punk X-Man parked his fork-lift
Like a billion stars flickering from the grinder's wheel
Lower hybrid clad in metal
In subgroup tools
Excused from schools
To fathom hell
See you now
Echo and his brother (Echo and his brother)
Fish and Peter the Pig
Will meet where it's big
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium
Auditorium

When you motor away beyond the once-red lips
When you free yourself from the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And then the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

When you motor away down the icy streets
You can't lie to yourself that it's the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?

Come on
Speed on

(R. Pollard)

This is called "the coming of age"
Coming into town with the giggling faggots
Starting blizzards and other weird weather patterns
We participate in the shit
Now that's a hit
Now that's a hit!

I want to start a new life
With my valuable hunting knife
She will shine like a new girl
And I want to shout out our love to the world, hit it

Everything I think about I think about
Everything I talk about I talk about with you
But you don't know what I go through
You don't know

Days, they will turn into nights
But my valuable hunting knife
It will not rust through the tears
And it will not lose its appeal over years, come on

Everything I think about I think about
Everything I talk about I talk about with you
But you don't know what I go through
You don't know

I'll never know
I'll never know
And then I will run
And then I will. . .
And then I will hide
And then I will. . .
And then I will run
And then I will. . .
And then I will hide

I'll never know
I'll never know

(R. Pollard)

Send in the striped white jets
In through stained glass ceilings, ah-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh
Color them white or red

Don't let anyone find out
Or expose your feelings, ah-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh
Cover your head instead

And penetrate this dark heart
And as the wound is healing, ah-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh
Crawl to the other side

Where things are new in brilliant blue
And striped white jets come speeding through, ah-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh

And we must not forget
The sudden pain of birth and greed
And what's expected of this superbreed

And those who dream to touch the sun
And those who run
Who always run

Perfect striped white jets
In their hangars bleeding, ah-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh
Cover them all in black

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

She's slender
Oh, she's cream
She's face
I took her from place to place
I moved her from room to room
I exploited her
Became the groom
So I write music for soundtracks now
I write music for soundtracks now
(That's what I wanted to do anyhow)

I took her from place to place
I took her from room to room
So I know, yeah...

We've been burned out
Concerned out
Discerned out
We've been sought out
'Cause we can't believe our eyes
We are the willing supporters
And we'd like to know
Why everything is so unkind

We've been sent in
Defending the one thing
Cause it's our duty
We've got to find out why
We are the willing supporters
And we'd like to know
Why everything is so unkind
We really should be fine, yeah

(R. Pollard)

Chicken blows
I suppose we could have a girl or a boy
And I see what you mean
I'm not here to drink all the beer
In the fridge (oh, la la la)
In the room (oh)
In the house
In the place (oh, la la la)
That we both (oh)
So love
Can you sink to the depths (lots of "oh"ing)
I don't know
I don't even care
And our lives slip away
In the end we will probably reach
All the way (oh, la la la)
To the walls (oh)
over there
Have you flown? (oh, la la la)
Our courage (oh)
Is only a taste
And I'll get paid (ooh, ooh)
If you'll get laid (ooh, ooh)
It's our parade (ooh, ooh)

(Sprout)
(the lyrics of most of this song are really incorrect, but I have no clue
what he's saying)

Hey, little girl would you say that you know that
It's so hard to believe that it's so sad
And I know you're believing in something
But it's just so hard to believe in a nomad
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care, I don't care

Hey little girl would you stop and just lay back
It's so hard to believe that you're so sad
And I know we just keep talking about it
In a swirl bunch of nothing turned inside out
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care, I don't care

Hey little whirl I reach for you and you jump back
It's so hard to believe that you're so sad
I know that we've talked all around it
A little whirl we can do something about it
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care what you do anymore
I don't care, I don't care

Decide now!
Decide now before you continue
The list is complete without your permission
I finally know how, I finally can't quit
And ancient ideas are on fire, my love

Completely the rope has been severed
The night screams for contact and clue
I must keep a journal
I must boast a victory
And the hellfire is dying around you, my love
Around you, my love X12

(R. Pollard)

Full head of nothing
Fail to see the difference
Fail to feel the mercy
Off to join the flagstaff
Always crush me
Picture my amazement
When it doesn't always pain me
And I will reproduce faster

Commitment trailblazer
Your trail is quite a puzzle
And you are such a daredevil
And you are such a collector
Always crush me
Picture my amazement
When it doesn't always pain me
And I will reproduce faster

(R. Pollard)

Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright

for our lives to be once again
like it once was
in the ice age, in a kingdom long ago;
without songs, without hope, without meaning,
and therefore
always having the same effect
without ever knowing why

Find deep within your memory coat
A cricket bag you ate from
Its sweet smiling apology
Acceptance awaits you
Don’t be afraid to cherish it
Look it up in the bookmobile
Look it up in the gun rack
In the magazine rack
And the map

For it is only after the fence comes down
That the cartoon bubble explodes
And the new party begins
Invitation only, still in a senator’s suitcase
Let them out and dance for the ant god
Like scary magnets to pounce upon command
Upon the man
The man called Aerodynamics

Crowded gymnasiums, no shortage of knockouts
And a country dance sellathon
Overworked spines, all efforts considered

But not before the prize is posted
The king-sized electric institute
Is proud to prevent
“Dazzling Rhine Jive Click
And His Up-and-coming Bombardiers”
All fuckin’ right
Hottest axe in a million years

Do you suppose she could change your life?
If she could, then I wish she would
Do you suppose she could save my life?
If she could, then I think she should

It's another busy day for the cut-out witch
Silver threads for our heads, need another stitch
Golden needles in our eyes, then we realize
It's another busy day for the cut-out witch

And could she change this wrong into a right?
Say pretty please and I think she might
‘Cause if she won't, you will fall and bust
And turn to dust, so I think she must

It's another busy day for the cut-out witch
Silver threads for our heads, need another stitch
Golden needles in our eyes, then we realize
It's another busy day for the cut-out witch

Do you think she can change your life?
Do you think she can change your life?
Do you think she can change your life?

Don't open life alone
Contact the empire solutionaries
They cut the skin, they peel back the onion
Reveal the ghost blood
Fat black gas exudes
Moves into the mirrored halls of empty values

Canned sister Iowa
Drive me to the changing room
Where the counterfeit meets
And brings its collection of orphans

Leave them in the state grip
The nurses hate them
But it's up to you and me, my faithful sin-eater
To give them a glorious lightbath
And remove their wrapping
Their burning flag birthday suit

Bitter fish in crude oil sea
You don't have to bother me
You just have to join in on this song
Crawling people on your knees
Don't take this so seriously
You just have to hum it all day long

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

You won't see me turn my back
With my head against my stack
Spitting teeth and breaking open skin
Official ironmen, you are free
Champions officially
But you won't catch me on an open chin

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

Knockout punches for the freaks
Happy little babies with red cheeks
You will rock them gently out of sync
Confirmations through the wire
Spitting gas into the fire
Am I also worthy of a drink?

To dine alone
To build a private zone
Or trigger a synapse
And free us from our traps

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire
Stand erect and not detect
The anythings that we could not admire

From a long line of highmen
Number one, is that the one to send?
To restore all the trial
This and then the national pride, so proud

A question to the lunatic
Does your day seem like night?
Does your world go to heaven?

Gallant men dash forth
He takes his place
He ends the laughter of the slaughter daughters
Takes his softness from his hand and goes

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire

See you around, yeah
I wanted to call you around
See you around, yeah
I wanted to call you around

Could you?
Could you keep a secret from me?
Yeah, could you?
Could you keep a secret from me, yeah?

See you around, yeah
I wanted to call you around
See you around, yeah
I wanted to call you around

When I'm alone I can see no sky
When I'm alone I can see no sky
When I'm alone I can see no sky

Could you?
Could you keep a secret from me, yeah?
Could you?
Could you keep a secret from me, yeah?

Come on, polluted eyeballs
Stop scouting out the field
Jump up, bright paper werewolves
And everybody everywhere

Anyone can scratch
And anyone can win
So bring out another batch

They want to get out of here
But they can’t find the exit
They cling to the cinema
And they can’t find security
Then they finally got recognized
So they left in obscurity and misery

Straight to the lord of overstock
Who spoke for the millionth turn
“Don’t be late for the superdeal, we’ll save you a lot
And take every cent you earn”

Following tips, his overfed rats
Said, “Trust in the king of overstock
Invest in his wisdom and learn
There’s less to go around if everyone counts
But if you’ve got the money to burn
Then you will be in
Always good faith
For what you are worth
In heaven on earth”

Time to say to you, my child
Your name is Wild
And if you called me in
To change the color
Your name is Wild
And I'll be taking you soon now
To read the orange signs

And I say now to you, “So what?”
The useless fade in time
You chose me to read you no lies
Hooray for the day
And I'll pray for the angels to keep you, my child
You are safer now
God knows it, too

Time to say to you, my child
Your name is Wild
And if you called me in
To change the color
Your name is Wild
And I'll be taking you soon now
To read the orange signs

And I say now to you, “So what?”
The useless fade in time
You chose me to read you no lies
Hooray for the day
And I'll pray for the angels to keep you, my child
You are safer now
God knows it, too

Friend of mine, what did you find?
The fog of a nightmare dissipating
A rolling sign, better than mine
The ghosts of a different dream are waiting
A different kind of kiss
The souls of a different mist are rolling
I’ve been inside the mist
The ghosts of another fist are calling

The troops are led in tournament red
In spite of the ogre’s trumpet blaring
A world of hate can’t penetrate
The crest of a different shield you’re wearing
A different kind of fight
And keep those telephones a-ringing
I’ve been inside all right
The ghosts of a different dream are singing

It’s crippling, never really knowing
They’re huddling where it’s always nice
And plus there is a flame of frail and trippy hearts
And swallowed, being small and being still
Following wherever you will

Look at them, they’re sensitive
And they inch out, look at them
And plus there is a flame of frail and trippy hearts
And swallowed, being small and being still
Following wherever you will

Once she was down and she opened
A crate of secrets darker than she
Underwater explosions
Curtains rippling obviously

She can breathe
Since I’ve been tired, she can breathe
And the shocks are bound to please
And she points to me

To insist
On facing the salt and it stings
And certainly that changes things
And she points to me

Cups painted orange and sunburst
Lined up side by side, keeps them so clean
Brightly they shine in the starlight
But darker places I’ve never seen

She can breathe
Since I’ve been tired, she can breathe
And the shocks are bound to please
And she points to me

To insist
On facing the salt and it stings
And certainly that changes things
And she points to me
Sometimes passes through me

And the sound will carry you on
And the sound will carry you on

I'm dreaming and so it must be true
Nothing else could look as good as you do
And so in a rocket go
Up to where the astros flow into space
Don't hold me down

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Atom eyes

I'm running away from your clues
Atomizer sprinkler are spraying perfume
Escape a lobotomy
There's a million heartstrings ready to fly
Let's pull them now

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Just be sure to live again
Atom eyes

Atom eyes, don't worry your brain
Take a break from every day
Sell the house, the car, the pain
Just be sure to live again
Atom eyes

Roll out the painkillers
We'll have a perfect wig-out
Sleepy boys don't look
It's not in the gazette
Or a statistical occurrence
It's octopus caveman
Drinking with the enemy
He's got a girl on every arm

He sits down and circulates
In the office of hearts
He's case-closed middleman
In the office of hearts
He'll steal you away

He sits down and circulates
Come feel the softest parts
In the office of hearts
Sit down and circulate
Come feel the softest parts
In the office of hearts

Sit down and circulate
Come feel the softest parts
In the office of hearts

Catch me as an animal
And now gone kissing
But soon be missing home
And waving at waterfalls
Too strong not to mention
With tempting extentions unknown

Oh, this time I really mean that
A cracking coat where I dig that
Oh, this time I want to keep it alone
Oh, this time I really trust you
But it can't belong to anyone
And I'd be so sad if I lost it

And the courage seekers
Of the aborted logo
Of declaration “no go” are gone
But I'll keep a light for ‘em
Hold down the fort for ‘em
And wear my maroon blazer all the time

Oh, this time I really mean that
A cracking coat where I dig that
Oh, this time I want to keep it alone
Oh, this time I really trust you
But it can't belong to anyone
And I'd be so sad if I lost it

Oh, this time I really mean that
A cracking coat where I dig that
Oh, this time I want to keep it alone
Oh, this time I really trust you
But it can't belong to anyone
And I'd be so sad if I lost it

Oh, this time I really mean that
A cracking coat where I dig that
Oh, this time I want to leave it alone
Oh, this time I really trust you
But it can't belong to anyone
And I'd be so sad if I lost it

I am a tree, I show my age when I don't cry
I have the leaf that will fall off when wind blows by
Don't strip off my bark, I have been stripped of it before
‘Cause yesterday's gone and tomorrow has so much more in store

You are a bird, you're taking off in every way
Save the last word till there is nothing more to say
Don't interrupt, you know the squirrels are my friends
Get off my limb, for I will break before I bend

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, counting my rings will do no good
I won't live long, but I would be with you if I could
When you take flight, remember me to one who lives there
Since you have flown, there's something special in the air

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, yeah
Fruitless and free, yeah
No symmetry, yeah

Firmly rooted and quite hellbent
The old grunt packs up the hose
And pokes his nose through the old trunk trap
Hurts from years of concentration
Spent in the umpires association
Talking 'bout the next sensation
Up and coming
But now he's strumming
A buzzing one-stringer
Always quite a singer
Did his wife in the dueling banjos....

I played the part
I played the start
I made a table out of clay
I placed my hands
Upon the plans
I waited for a proud display
I played around
I heard the sound
Of certain trouble on the way

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I took a car
I drove it far
I dug the quality of steel
I crashed my nerve
I made it swerve
I made it back, was no big deal
I tasted blood
A date with scud
And now I don't know how to feel

‘Cause I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin
All right, get wild

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

Near a distant sea
Her clear yellow eyes
Are opening to pink and black skies
And soon they are blinking
With compound camera eyes
Are you faster
Than the eyes of the car-people?
Styled in silver
Are you able to roam
Faster then the lighthouse keeper credits you?

I am pressed, printed, stomped
And strategically removed
I am everybody

Insane without innocence
I am trapped, tricked, packaged
And shipped out

I am produced
I am produced
I am produced

I am produced (Pressed, printed, stomped, tripped)
I am produced (Trapped, tricked, packaged, shipped)

Militant babies came to me
And told me, “Don't be afraid to try”
Phenomenal stunt kids in the streets
Popping out of the black ghost pie
Fearless ones, cracked up Jack and Jill
They're down there in the bunker still
You look like a sniper anyway

I'm not behind the fighter jet
I'd much rather back a simple girl
I've seen your plan and it's all wet
A noseload of prophecies coming to me

Caught in the trap where bravery steps
A wounded mercenary bleeds
In the hall of fantastically fine things
Where the path of glory leads
Lately I think it's grown too hard
Coming up with the winning card
But who's gonna beat them in their own backyard?

I'm not behind the fighter jet
I'd much rather back a simple girl
I've seen your plan and it's all wet
A noseload of prophecies coming to me

Days into weeks
She rattled my mind
We stayed out all week
And got happy this time
She fills empty space
I kinda need it that way
Crybaby says bye to me

I can't imagine that all our troubles will go away
But I could catch her and break the falls
I could snatch her with beaks and claws

Today when every “fake it” decides to make it
They just can't take it away
Shove it, ‘cause I'll just stay
Like an ugly unwanted stray
Don't care what you say

In the silver waters
We race each new morning
In the vegetable stream
Long live the dream
The mightiest toughman leads
Into the skeleton forest
On cold ass western wheels
The one of whom we speak:
A very hollow cheek

They should never take you away
Not with all the little lines you say
Especially when you make them laugh

Come with me, believe in what you're making me
Baby, out of sadness there is pain
But your barrage of little lines is making me
Change now
Change

Philosophers and critics of the play
We're listening hard to every word we say
Especially when it makes us laugh

Come with me, believe in what you're making me
Baby, out of sadness there is pain
But your barrage of little lines is making me
Change now
Change

Come with me, believe in what you're making me
Baby, out of sadness there is pain
But your barrage of little lines is making me
Change now
Change

Change now
Change

You are a child reaching out brave and true
For big things in the next room, and I
Couldn't step into such open sky
Along the crest of uncertainty you loom
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

Say that you'll never run too far away
Even with all the answers out there
Where it's brighter, but no one will care
Half as much as I care about you
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

Mother, feeling your hand I
Believe you and I did then
And mother, release every bad seed
The geese are leaving the trees

Exposed to winter's cold
They waited too long
But we too exaggerated
And I take the cake away
It's a long song
And I can play it so
Give me a pick now
Collector of bones

Words of smoke
Distorted, never broken
Paradise is open but I choke
One of these days when I see through the smoke
There'll be the day I get the joke

Exposed to winter's cold
They waited too long
But we too exaggerated
And I take the cake away
It's a long song
And I can play it so
Give me a pick now
Collector of bones

Words of smoke
Distorted, never broken
Paradise is open but I choke
One of these days when I see through the smoke
There'll be the day I get the joke

Blessed is the way to a man's heart
Quite so even out of dreadlock
But the bastard of an ex-warhorse kicks
And I smiled like an electric child
(A sign reading: Welcome To New Limited Dimensions)

There is no boy in me now
There is no time and I'm alone
But I am only breathing
Breathing around

I get involved with your crowd
They make me feel so alone
If you could only see me
When I'm around

But this is you and this is war
It makes me drink even more
And I'll have fun then I'll make a mark on you
I'll tell you all that I am
How simple feet will walk for free
Until you injure me again

This is you and this is war
It makes me drink even more
And I'll have fun then I'll make a mark on you
I'll tell you all that I am
How simple feet will walk for free
Until you injure me again

Jane of the waking universe
Jane of the waking universe

A wrinkled rose snapped back, and the flies on flowers
Spreading out to all sickness of humanity
Listen to our queen as she is offering free samples
Of her lovely garden spoils

Jane of the waking universe
Jane of the waking universe

And undulating always, like the tide, the devil's bride
Is calling all toward her skirt
And in the loving folds there we will hide inside
From any would-be sneak attack
Until it's safe to journey back

Jane of the waking universe
Jane of the waking universe

Jane of the waking universe
Jane of the waking universe

It's too late now
She's got me dreaming
Without you there is no truth
According to me
Inside and around me
Tears got me drinking
Without you there is no scope
In the morning for me

One of these days in the night
Old enemies will come back to fight
And since you would then disagree
We will be skinned alive
When full-colored kings arrive

And teach them we will all we know
Bring popcorn for Geronimo
And dance with our freshly made friends
Ignoring the old ones
The boring and cold ones

And when the colossus crawls west
Jazz bastards will fall and confess
We all love you so and your rock
Is paradise plastic
It's cheap and fantastic

It's too late now

I see them in the dark
Fairy wings are green
Chemical minx disguises
Significant pink UFO

I'm not up there
Approach me now

We hope these cables will serve you well
We hold these truths and they're not to sell

I'm not up there
Approach me now

Here I go around the blame
Here I go with hand over flame
Down on the floor at nine o'clock
A scene not fully recognized
At precisely nine o'clock

Here I go with clapping hands
Here I go with “still no plans”
Illuminate the mystery
The film is not for view
The film is not for you

For Chrissakes, Charlie
Send them your love
Pictures from happier times
When babies acted like babies
So did the grown-ups
The band played “We All Fall Down”
And some of us did

Fly off the wheel
Travel highwired
There are movements necessary
Then there is unnecessary motion
It happens all the time
You can see it swim
In the skin parade
In the skin parade

Where other objects move to
Right through you
To the other side
It is come alive
It is come alive
In the skin parade
In the parade of skin

Celebrating this level
Of concrete movements
Wicked

What of the blessings
Of the tired arms waiting for more?
At times and if you sleep
And the pressure is then off
Where has it gone?

What blazing white giant
Pulls off the darkness?
Is it good for you
To ask for assistance?
And to ask for it for others also?
Next time you get sick you'll know
You might even see
You might even see
You'll see

Sometimes her mother will work with her
But There's nothing wrong with her
There's nothing wrong with her
There's nothing wrong

So such is life that it writes itself
Trying to right itself
But There's nothing wrong with it
There's nothing wrong

And every single day without much to say
These apparitions raise a toast to their kind

The people who are these things
Are not afraid with you
And caring must go with the wisdom
Of their selections

Never can touch their sign language
So is the cost of sound barriers
Even as though she's still searching
For a cloud with a silver lining
We pray for her
She's burning slow
Out on a mission's light

Christian animation torch carriers
This is a shallow hole but faith makes it safe
Hiding inside a grave with no sound
No witness to see
With or without you

Christian animation torch carriers
However will you learn their sign language
However will you try to hide
Within their eyes?
Within them in life?

Cheyenne - The face of pride never died
Cheyenne - The true blue water
Cheyenne - I celebrate for you and I
Sifting through the pieces of the broken prize

Cheyenne - I'm sending out satellites
Cheyenne - I'm hovering quite largely
Cheyenne - In paradox in suicide
Cheyenne in white

And if an innocent minute lives for the light
The time is right
Define a line
To hold back the night - inside
A single glimpse of purity
In a flickering light
Cheyenne sees right

And if an innocent minute lives for the light
The time is right, define a line
To hold back the night inside
A single glimpse of purity in a flickering light
Cheyenne sees right

Cheyenne - A drama not acted out
Cheyenne - In destiny stay gazing
Cheyenne - In witnessing if I'm to miss
Cheyenne in white

Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white
Cheyenne in white

“Make It” comes alive
In my private glass tent, oh yeah
A portable mortuary
Going
Going
But not yet gone

‘Cause when it does
It does, and then
The ancient practice
Of mourning the phantom
Do you really think he
Would choose to inhabit the pore
Where his container was planted?

Can't imagine that

How can I look through
Their senseless side?
As much as I'd like to
All is not right - and it shows
All around you
Under the tree - a seed
Come in closer
There is a sign
Shaped in the mind

Pick up - for God's sake
When we call you back to the lake

How can I tell you
All that is wrong
Nothing invites you
Can't get along - with you now
And I try to
There is a page
It's still unwritten
Why can't you find
Time in your schedule
To pick up...

Oh, pick up for God's sake
When we call you back to the lake

Make no mistake
We will call you back to the lake

I dig the way you skim
Light and fried, like creme brulee
Svelt melta, pussyheart
Sweet and unwrinkled
‘Neath a thousand pounds of clothes
Expensive ones

Does she blend well?
Your choice, I mean
Your angel baby monkey girl
The gift of smiles and love production
Her sunshine mind
Her storm cloud eyes
Blending colors into brown
Confusing emotions, deliberately

Does it hurt you?
To love, I mean
And all the creases in your brow
The red bedspread, the storm vibrations
The starless nights
The shattered screen
Allowing pain to enter
Let your guard/God down, obviously

It will try to find you
No matter where you may go
It will try to find you
No matter who you may know

Does it hurt you?
To love, I mean
Does it hurt you?
To love, I mean
Does it hurt you?
To love, I mean

Circular beast exhibit
Factory of raw essentials
Wrong examples
Palefoot frontrunners
For disease control
And with ease you can roll away the stone
And find no remnants of goodness

Roll away the stone
You’ll find no remnants of goodness
You roll away the stone
And find no remnants of goodness

Eyeline the driveway
Eyeblack the door
Sky all around me
Levels life from roof to floor

Trees and knees are lovely
Seek it, find the core
I have grown to life
Like all in silence, wait for more

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to follow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

I will try to fight them
I will let them nowhere to go
Try escape the pace
I'll say God bless you, let me know

We know the answers
We fill us in
I do not diminish
Start to finish, front to end

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Censor of the lightning ghosts

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

Climbing up to greet you
And all the suns that shine above you
Pretty bombs will sing you
To sleep and you will dream of them

Out of one chance
Out of wonder

A secret box where hides it
They put their hearts inside it
No one has the keys
And so they lie to you

Loving arms attack you
With promises for when you check out
Are they so intrigued
By far off places over there

From inside their pretty cages
They creep out and up the hill
To follow them

Going places
All the same

Peeled in grace before the sunlight
Stripped of face and so the morning...

My lonely mile
Is charming from above
Do not run my love
No one is harming you

Why do you dream
Of strange men in aeroplanes
And parachutes torn
By wings of thorn?

Your lovely smile
Should not be touched
Do not sip this poison
No one is hunting
No fox and no horn

Why do you fear
What takes to the air
Before it is borne
On wings of thorn?

It
Who no longer can listen
It
Saw a gusty wind

Come up to listen
Before I was ten
and all of the evil grids
From a hill where rats consider

And they gang
And they topple
And they send a smoke ring
Into the onion field
A ghost!
And this can make you choke
Coming from the throat
Of a ghost!

And sent to my weak knees
From a voice plantation
All in together
In terror

How did I get to know ya?
How could I not?
All the time linking crimes in progress
With previous foul-ups
And we know secrets
And perfect cures

And once the answer
To all God's problems
Escaped us as quickly as it came
But that's O.K.
Because all things happen

As the icy breeze is shattered
By speaking to us warmly
To the nation of duress
And God yes, it's a mess

We know this and that
The romantic soul for us
In the lost hierarchy of land
And landowners
And down will go back up forevermore
I must try to believe this

And if I may consider
To look out from an opening
Of freshly painted lines
And letter perfect designs

For we know this and that
The romantic soul for us
In the lost hierarchy of land
And landowners
And down will go back up forevermore
I must try to believe this

Fight me
Fight me in practice
Up from a squelch
A ten point power plant
No planning a rant
You get a clear man

Hunting a heart
Backed away in his pig
Father Sgt. Christmas Card
Gone jogging
Gumming the fun tunnel
And answer to no one
And not knowing this
So God bless you
Continue to speak

Oh, God, bless you!
Fa la la la la
Oh, God, bless you!
Fa la la la la

(R. Pollard-Sprout)

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag
We are with you in your anger
Proud brothers
Do not fret
The bus will get you there yet
To carry us to the lake
The club is open
Yeah, The club is open
Hey, the club is open
A-come on, come on, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, the club is open
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, the club is open...

Coded ancient, the crease
Unlock the timers
And strike the chimers
In my sleep

Grab the coat, steel the fleece
From behind the curtain
It will most certain-
ly bring peace

To those with countless numbers
No longer cold or hot, like
Things that I will keep
And hide them in my sleep

Dead even countless numbers
No longer cold or hot, like
Things that I will keep
And hide them in my sleep

Coded ancient, oh brightness
We shall see
Loaded up and at night when
We shall flee
Not to tread through the heavy life
Sink in the dream
On the right night
You'll find her waiting

Selling things for cheap
The things that I will keep

Eyeline the driveway
Eyeblack the door
Sky all around me
Levels life from roof to floor

Trees and knees are lovely
Seek it, find the core
I have grown to life
Like all in silence, wait for more

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to follow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

I will try to fight them
I will let them nowhere to go
Try escape the pace
I'll say God bless you, let me know

We know the answers
We fill us in
I do not diminish
Start to finish, front to end

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Censor of the lightning ghosts

Everywhere with helicopter
Hard to swallow when I'm slow
Everywhere with helicopter
Sending off where lightning goes

I am a tree, I show my age when I don't cry
I have the leaf that will fall off when wind blows by
Don't strip off my bark, I have been stripped of it before
‘Cause yesterday's gone and tomorrow has so much more in store

You are a bird, you're taking off in every way
Save the last word till there is nothing more to say
Don't interrupt, you know the squirrels are my friends
Get off my limb, for I will break before I bend

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, counting my rings will do no good
I won't live long, but I would be with you if I could
When you take flight, remember me to one who lives there
Since you have flown, there's something special in the air

I'm planning to see
I'm planning to feel you all over me
So climb up my trunk and build on your nest
Come get the sap out of me
I am a tree
Fruitless and free
No symmetry
Touch me and see

I am a tree, yeah
Fruitless and free, yeah
No symmetry, yeah

Paralyze the chains
Soft the shelled remains
Stun the strike brigade
They are played

Out with cheek and hair
Take the right to bear
Teeth to bite them down
In the ground

My kind of soldier
You can ride on my shoulders
When you've won
Fight for the moment
Of control, when it opens
Then it's gone

Introduce your pride
To the other side
Vaporize the trial
With denial

My kind of soldier
You can ride on my shoulders
When you've won
Fight for the moment
Of control, when it opens
Then it's gone

14 cheerleader coldfront
Point your nose beyond
Creeping boys in alleys
Find them when you’re gone

Stick close to locker rooms
And wavy clothes to wear
You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

16 used companions
Have nowhere to stay
Give them access to parking spaces
No coin meters there

Stick close to locker rooms
And wavy clothes to wear
You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

You will hold them dear
To something queer and stare

Tower to the skies
An academy of lies
And what goes up
Surely must come down
And we felt the mighty blow-up
With the walls coming down
Or something like that

Most of us are quite pleased
With the same old song
And all of a sudden I'm relatively sane
With everything to lose and nothing to gain
Or something like that

Man of wisdom and man of compromise
Man of weak flesh in an armored disguise
All fall down

"If it's right you can tell" echos myron like a siren
With endurance like the liberty bell
And he tells you of the dreamers
But he's cracked up like the road
And he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
And we're finally here and shit yeah it's cool
And shouldn't it be - or something like that

You are a child reaching out brave and true
For big things in the next room, and I
Couldn't step into such open sky
Along the crest of uncertainty you loom
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

Say that you'll never run too far away
Even with all the answers out there
Where it's brighter, but no one will care
Half as much as I care about you
I'm learning to hunt for you
I'm learning to hunt for you

I played the part
I played the start
I made a table out of clay
I placed my hands
Upon the plans
I waited for a proud display
I played around
I heard the sound
Of certain trouble on the way

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I took a car
I drove it far
I dug the quality of steel
I crashed my nerve
I made it swerve
I made it back, was no big deal
I tasted blood
A date with scud
And now I don't know how to feel

‘Cause I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin
All right, get wild

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

I got bulldog skin
I got bulldog skin

Why is it every time I think about you
Something that you have said or implied makes
me doubt you
Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it
As if it never meant anything to me

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end

In the first place it's probably just paranoia
But there's a ghost in my room
And he says I better run
It's a thing I know - it's a thing I believe in
Won't you tell it to go away?

Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain
Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end...

I've waited too long to have you
Hide in the back of me
I've cheated so long I wonder
How you keep track of me

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

I've entered the game of pricks
With knives in the back of me
Can't call you or on you no more
When they're attacking me

I'll climb up on the house
Weep to water the trees
And when you come calling me down
I'll put on my disease

You could never be strong
You can only be free
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me
And I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire
Stand erect and not detect
The anythings that we could not admire

From a long line of highmen
Number one, is that the one to send?
To restore all the trial
This and then the national pride, so proud

A question to the lunatic
Does your day seem like night?
Does your world go to heaven?

Gallant men dash forth
He takes his place
He ends the laughter of the slaughter daughters
Takes his softness from his hand and goes

To remake the young flyer
Yes, we must define his high desire